[CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

Tue Aug 21 18:14:40 UTC 2007
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

Which controllers allow it?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 14:13
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?
> 
> On 8/21/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5? 
>  It doesn't
> > seem to work on my system.  Removing an unmounted drive locked the
> > system up, and leaving one out at bootup makes the devices 
> change names
> > and keeps grub from finding /boot on a scsi drive that is 
> shifted up.
> 
> Depends on the SATA controller, but yes. If the controller allows, you
> can hotswap sata drives.
> 
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